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« Previous EntriesAbraham Palatnik: Aparelho Cinecromático (1964)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009One the works on display in the exhibition “Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil – The Adolpho Leirner Collection” at Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, Switzerland, is Abraham Palatnik’s Aparelho Cinecromático.
Abraham Palatnik is a pioneer of technological art. He was born in natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in 1928, to a family of Russian Jews that [...]
Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection / Haus Konstruktiv Zürich
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The Adolpho Leirner Collection is considered as one of the most significant collections of Brazilian Concrete-Constructive art. For the first time in Europe, Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, Switzerland, showcases the “Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston”. Although individual works from the collection have been shown frequently in [...]
Marco Schuler: Zauberberg. Sculptures and Videos / Häusler Contemporary Zürich
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Marco Schuler’s solo exhibition at Häusler Contemporary Zürich is the first exhibition of a new series of solo presentations of young international artists who exhibit for the first time in Switzerland. New Position I, the inaugural exhibition, presents sculptures and videos by the German artist.
Marco Schuler’s work revolves around notions of physical strain and [...]
Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space / Migros Museum Zürich
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are semmingly solidified in movement, as if frozen. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Tatiana Trouvé presents new works in her first solo exhibition in Switzerland: an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings.
One of [...]
Wilhelm Sasnal at Hauser & Wirth Zürich
Friday, November 6th, 2009Until the 19th of December 2009, Hauser & Wirth Zürich presents an exhibition of new paintings on canvas and works on paper by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. Many works in the show relate to Wilhelm Sasnal’s first ever feature-lenght film entitled Swiniopas (Swineherd), which he realized in the past year.
Swiniopas is an adaption of [...]
Sarah Cain: Double Future / Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie / Interview
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Currently, Seiler + Moseri-Marlio Galerie in Zurich, Switzerland, presents the first solo-show of Los Angeles based artist Sarah Cain. The exhibition, titled “Double Future“, is her first solo show in Europe.
In this conversation with Olga Stefan, Sarah Cain talks about her background and the works she presents at the exhibition.
Sarah Cain participated in the 2008 [...]
Mircea Cantor: Tracking Happiness / Kunsthaus Zürich
Monday, August 31st, 2009Mircea Cantor: Tracking Happiness at Kunsthaus Zürich is Switzerland’s first solo show of works of Romanian artist Mircea Cantor. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a film created especially for the exhibition, “Tracking Happiness”. The video features a group of women clad in white sashaying in various formations barefoot across fine white sand. Their traces [...]
Selected Works From a Private Collection: Thomas Kinkade / Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich
Monday, July 6th, 2009In 2008, German artist Christian Jankowski engaged professional teleshopping hosts for his parodistic shopping channel Kunstmarkt TV – Art Market TV for selling artworks by renowned artists like Jeff Koons. The performance was recorded by VernissageTV at our studio at Open Space / Art Cologne 2008 and broadcast live on our livestreaming platform. The footage [...]
Philippe Parreno: May / Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Monday, May 11th, 2009The current exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland is dedicated to the work of Philippe Parreno, a French artist born in Algeria. Philippe Parreno: May at Kunsthalle Zürich is the first episode from a planned series of “retrospective” exhibitions that will be shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, the Centre Pompidou, the Irish Museum of Modern Art [...]
Blogpix at Denise Bibro Fine Art / Platform, New York
Saturday, March 7th, 2009The exhibition blogpix at Denise Bibro Fine Art’s Platform Project Space brings together four art bloggers who have each chosen an artist (or artists) for the show. The bloggers are Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof, Joanne Mattera, and Hrag Vartanian.
Fallon & Rosof have chosen Philadelphia artist Christopher Davison; Joanne Mattera has selected three fellow bloggers [...]
